Shawn Levasseur's Blog

(formerly ComicsPundit)

Author: Shawn L.

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  • NaBloPoMo Observation #1

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    Two posts in and I’m noticing that the word minimum isn’t a problem. It’s the desire to fill out a blog post into a longer essay that really starts to suck up the time. I’m caught between the goal of “just post”, but don’t want to have a post be a fleeting tweet. Technichally a…

  • November, the month of challenges?

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    Is it just me or is there a tendency to make November a month with a lot of dedicated month-long projects associated with it? I’m not talking about the slew of National “X” Months that are promotional in nature or seek to expand awareness of something or other. I’m talking about something encouraging people to…

  • 14 Years Later… NaBloPoMo

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    In 2011, I announced an attempt at participating in the National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) , a sort of alternative to National Novel Writing Month, which traditionaly has been held in November. My inital post on the project is here: https://shawnlevasseur.com/2011/11/nanowrimo-no-nablopomo-wtf/ I didn’t stick with it, but I’m giving it another shot for a variety…

  • Shawn L. for LNC Secretary

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    Shawn Levasseur Photo by Avens O’Brien “Who am I? Why am I here?” – James Stockdale I’ll answer the latter question first. I’m running to be the Libertarian National Committee’s Secretary to: As to the former question, I… Leading up to the Libertarian Party National Convention, I’ll be posting more details about my background and…

  • ComicsPundit gets the hard reboot.

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    So, for the umpteenth* time, I’m redesigning my blog. This time, however, I’m dropping the “ComicsPundit” brand. It was created at a time when I thought I could focus on the intersection of two of my passions. But I was all over the place, sometimes comics, sometimes politics, sometimes both, sometimes something completely different. So,…

  • Supreme Court term limits?

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    I forget how I came across it, but I was recently engrossed in [this article about term limits for the Supreme Court, “A Better System for Appointing Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court” by Andrew Johnson.][1][1]: https://medium.com/@andrjohn751/a-better-system-for-putting-judges-on-the-u-s-supreme-court-bce9962ef0ebI have some detailed thoughts on it,

  • Ketchup and the Two-Party Problem

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    A defense of third-party politics.Seth Godin wrote about third parties in a blog post “Ketchup and the third-party problem”. He says that those of us supporting third parties or their candidates are doomed to failure, and miss our chance to really influence the political field.Needless to say, I find the arguement lacking, and merely a…

  • NaNoWriMo? No, NaBloPoMo. (WTF?)

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  • Borders (bookstores) Files For Bankruptcy, Owes Diamond (comics distributor) Nearly $4 Million

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